Storace: Keyboard music

Storace: Selva di varie compositioni d'intavolatura per cimbalo

Rinaldo Alessandrini
Astrée 8702

Contents:

1. Partite sopra il cinque passi
2. Corrente
3. Passagagli sopra Fe fa ut per b
4. Recercar
5. Ciaccona
6. Corrente
7. Aria sopra la Spagnoletta
8. Toccata e Canzon
9. Balletto
10. Monica
11. Ballo della Battaglia
12. Passagagli sopra A la mi re

Instrument: Harpsichord in Italian style by Alain Anselm (Villemandeur, 1986; collection Gérard Dupaty)

Playing time: 65'

Recording date: August 1988

Bernardo Storace is known only from this single publication, engraved in copper by an unknown Venetian printer in 1664. The introduction states that he is chapel master in Messina, and thus notionally of the Southern school of Italian keyboard music, although his work generally has more in common formally with the Northern style of Rossi & Merulo. The publication is made up overwhelmingly of variation forms, worked out quite rigorously.

Other recordings devoted to Storace:

Storace: Selva di varie compositione

Fabio Bonizzoni
Glossa 921506

Storace: Selva di varie composizioni

Francesco Cera
Tactus 601901

Storace: Selva di varie composizioni, 2

Francesco Cera
Tactus 601902

Storace: Harpsichord Music

Naoko Akutagawa
Naxos 8.572209

Danses à l'orgue autour du Bernardo Storace

Pascale Rouet
Pavane 7415

Storace: Una Sera Siciliana

Annamari Pölhö / Ballo della Battalia
Alba Records ABCD 150

A recording devoted to distinguished Neapolitan contemporary, Giovanni Salvatore (1620-1688):

Salvatore: Messa della Domenica

Ricercari a quattro voci / Toccate / Canzoni francesi
Fabio Bonizzoni / Schola Stirps Jesse
Glossa 921501

Finally, a recording by Alessandrini devoted to another more obscure composer of the era:

Pasquini: Sonate per gravicembalo (1702)

Rinaldo Alessandrini
Astrée 8726

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